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| Montreal, Quebec | |
| Branding | CJNT Montreal |
| Slogan | Une Ville, Plusieurs Cultures One City, Many Cultures |
| Channels | Analog: 62 / Cable 14 |
| Affiliations | E! |
| Owner | Canwest (Canwest Media Inc. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the E! is an English language privately-owned Television system in Canada. Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property Canwest Global Communications Corp () operating under the corporate brand Canwest, is one of Canada 's largest International media companies ) |
| Founded | 1980s (as cable only TEQ) 1997 (as over the air CJNT) |
| Call letters’ meaning | C J Montreal Television |
| Transmitter Power | 11 kW |
| Website | www.cjntmontreal.ca |
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History
The station signed on in 1997, but had its roots in the 1980s as La Télévision Ethnique du Québec (TEQ), a public access ethnic cable channel. Public-access television in the United States is a form of Citizen media, similar to Canada's community channels Australia's community television It had plans on moving over-the-air as early as the early 1990s, but was dogged by financial problems. Even after it signed on, its finances were in such a state that it never signed on earlier than noon.
Many of the people whose shows had aired on TEQ for many years didn't make the cut for CJNT because they didn't meet the standards for commercial broadcasting. However, many of the shows that did make it were below broadcast standards. Its commitment to ethnic groups was questioned, especially late at night when it would frequently show an infomercial for a psychic hotline — in English. Infomercials (or informercials are Television commercials that run for one minute or for as long as a typical Television program The word psychic (ˈsaɪkɨk from the Greek psychikos—"of the soul mental" refers to the claimed ability to perceive things hidden from the normal senses
Western International Communications bought CJNT in 1999. "Allarcom" redirects here For the owners of Super Channel, see Allarco Entertainment. WIC owned Montreal's CTV affiliate, CFCF-TV, but was facing serious competition from Global, which had expanded into Quebec the same year CJNT signed on. CTV is a Canadian English language Television network. It is Canada's largest privately owned network the main television asset of CTVglobemedia "CFCF" redirects here The call sign CFCF was also previously used by CINW (AM and CFQR-FM. Global Television Network (more commonly called Global TV or just Global) is a Canadian English language privately owned Television network WIC figured CJNT would give it much-needed leverage in Montreal. It planned to relaunch CJNT on the model of Canada's first multicultural station, CFMT-TV in Toronto, with 60% ethnic content and 40% American content. CFMT-TV, channel 47 is a Television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with rebroadcasters in Ottawa and London Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Those plans never materialized, and became moot when Canwest bought WIC's television assets in 2000.
Canwest had CJNT file bankruptcy, and changed its conditions of licence to reduce the ethnic content to 60%. Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their Creditors Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against On September 8, 2001, Global relaunched the station with a mixture of ethnic, English- and French-language programming. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The bulk of the English-language shows came from CH, so CJNT became, for all intents and purposes, the third CH station. Since there was no "H" in "CJNT" (unlike CHCH-TV and CHEK-TV), the CH in Montreal stood for "Canal Horizon. CHEK-TV is a Television station in Victoria British Columbia. " It changed its on-air name to "CH" in 2002, and then to simply "CJNT" in 2007 while CH programming rebranded as E!. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
CJNT airs the most local and Canadian shows in Canada (apart from CBC/Radio-Canada). CBC Television is a Canadian English language Television network. Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language Television network. However, all such shows on CJNT are ethnic or French-language programming — all English-language shows are American imports. For much of 2003 and 2004, CJNT fought a "commercial war" with Burlington, Vermont's Fox affiliate, WFFF. Burlington is the largest city in the US state of Vermont and is the shire town ( County seat) of WFFF-TV, channel 44 is the Fox -affiliated Television station for the state of Vermont (except Bennington County) and Upstate New York Due to Canada's "simultaneous substitution" rules, WFFF frequently shifted its schedule to keep its commercials from being blocked in Montreal — however, whenever possible, CJNT repeated the move in order to maintain its simsub rights. Simultaneous substitution, or simsub, is the practice by which cable, Direct broadcast satellite and Multichannel multipoint distribution service WFFF depends on advertising in Montreal for its survival since Montreal is several times larger than its entire American viewing area.
CJNT broadcasts at 11 kilowatts, one of Montreal's weakest television signals, on the same level as most low-powered UHF stations in the United States. The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. As a consequence, the station's over-the-air signal is very poor, even in Montreal.
Station presentation
CJNT-TV's logos and station presentation have changed over the years, showing changes in styles, themes, network affiliations, and changes in ownership. Below are some of the more recent logos used by the station.
 CJNT's former logo, as La Télévision Ethnique du Québec (TEQ) (1980s-1997) |
 CJNT's former logo, as CJNT-TV (1997-2001) |
 CJNT's former logo as "CH Montreal" (2001-2005) |
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